Brief Life History of Davis Emery
When Davis Emery Hembree was born on 16 May 1816, in Spartanburg, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States, his father, Abraham Hembree, was 59 and his mother, Nancy Winnifred Jackson, was 56. He married Adeline Miller in 1837. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Cocke, Tennessee, United States in 1860 and North Carolina, United States in 1870. He died in 1891, at the age of 75.
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- David Hembree, "United States Census, 1860"
- David Hembree in entry for Grief Hembree, "North Carolina, Department of Archives and History, Index to Vital Records, 1800-2000"
- Davis Hembree, "United States Census, 1870"
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1822 · Slave Rebellion
On June 16, 1822, Denmark Vesey a free and self-educated African American leads a slave rebellion called "the rising." The interesting thing about this rebellion is that it does not really happen. The only thing the judges have to go on is the testimony of people that witness it.
1830 · Trail of Tears
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
Altered form of English Hembrey, a variant of Amery , with excrescent H-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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